God Answers Prayer

                                             

Do you know your prayers can reach around the world? Do you know they can go beyond locked prison doors, into hospital rooms, permeating dens of prostitution and human slavery, into boardrooms of corporate headquarters, throne rooms of dictators, kings, and presidents?

What prayers are we to send up?

Prayers that men and women turn to God and that He lead them to repentance; prayers for healing; prayers that human traffickers repent and set their captives free; prayers for God's mercy upon people, rather than judgment; prayers that God would make a way for His laborers to reach into these places, that they may hear the gospel, be baptized in the name of Jesus for the remission of their sins and receive the gift of the Holy Ghost;  prayers that humanity receive the salvation that Jesus has freely given by believing and obeying the gospel, that their lives may turn from confusion and pain to blessings and goodness for themselves and those in their influence; prayers for the persecuted church, for protection and deliverance.

"Be careful [anxious] for nothing; but in every thing by prayer and supplication with thanksgiving let your requests be made known unto God." - Philippians 4:6 KJV

"Therefore I say unto you, What things soever ye desire, when ye pray, believe that ye receive them, and ye shall have them." - Mark 11:24 KJV

"Peter therefore was kept in prison: but prayer was made without ceasing of the church unto God for him. ... And, behold, the angel of the Lord came upon him, and a light shined in the prison: and he smote Peter on the side, and raised him up, saying, Arise up quickly. And his chains fell off from his hands." - Acts 12:5, 7 KJV

"Pray ye therefore the Lord of the harvest, that he will send forth labourers into his harvest." - Matthew 9:38 KJV

"When ye pray, say...Thy kingdom come." - Luke 11:2d KJV

"Praying always with all prayer and supplication in the Spirit, and watching thereunto with all perseverance and supplication for all saints;" - Ephesians 6:18 KJV

"Pray without ceasing." - 1 Thessalonians 5:17 KJV [Never stop praying].